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Chao Lam

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Second Thoughts

University and Bryant.

A semi sat at the red, signaling right.

My walk sign flipped first. I stepped off the curb.

A beat later, his light went green, and the cab began to swing into the turn — slowly, heavily, toward me.

Behind me, my...

16 days ago
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Mamdani goes to Bentonville?

The dunking started within hours.

Maybe it’s right. City-owned grocery stores are exactly the kind of idea that makes economists reach for the fire extinguisher: low margins, brutal logistics, political incentives, and a long history of pi...

22 days ago
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Closing the Loop

It’s a Tuesday after dinner. I’m on the couch, eight minutes into For All Mankind and wondering how they managed to age Joel Kinnaman yet again, and my wife comes and sidles up to me. At least that’s what I think she’s doing — until she sto...

a month ago
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Happy 50th, Apple!

Some geeks recall fondly their times spent in bookshops. I spent my teenage years in copy shops.

In a harshly fluorescent-lit room in Singapore, machines zipping their own fluorescent lights, I copied the photocopy of the photocopy of Bene...

2 months ago
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Refractions

At an AI summit in New Delhi this February, Prime Minister Modi gathered the assembled tech leaders for a show of unity. Everyone joined hands and raised them high.

Everyone except two.

Sam Altman and Dario Amodei managed an awkward elbow...

2 months ago
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